"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero Topic(s): Beauty Tags: destroys, speculation More From Marcus Tullius Cicero "What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." "Peace is liberty in tranquillity." "Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth." More In Beauty "Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion."― Charles Baudelaire "What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!"― Alexander Herzen